NAME

Meaning - Carnotaurus means “flesh(-eating) bull”
Pronounced - KAR-no-TAWR-us
Named By - Jose Bonaparte
When Named - 1985
DIET

Carnivore (meat-eater)
SIZE

Length - 25 feet (7.5 m) long
Height - 6.5 ft (2.2 m) tall at the hips
Weight - 1 ton (1000 kg)
WHEN IT LIVED

Middle Cretaceous period, about 113 to 91 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED

A single fossil was found in Patagonia, Chubut Province, Argentina, South America.
FOSSILS

An almost complete fossilized skeleton, together with skin impressions (that reveal rows of bumps on rough skin), has been found.
CLASSIFICATION
  • Kingdom Animalia (animals)
  • Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
  • Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)
  • Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs
  • Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores
  • Tetanura - advanced theropods with three fingers
  • Infraorder Neoceratosauria - relatively primitive theropods with large teeth
  • Genus Carnotaurus
  • Species C. sastrei (type species named by Bonaparte, 1985)
INTERESTING FACTS

Carnotaurus was a large, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur that looked a bit like a bull. It had two, knobby eyebrow-horns (hence its name), a small skull, extremely tiny arms (even smaller than those of T. rex), and a long, thin tail. It may have had partial binocular vision (unlike most other dinosaurs) since the eyes were set facing slightly forwards.
LINKS

A printout/coloring page on Carnotaurus.